In her lifetime she wrote four total: "The Beggars Are Coming," "Belinda," "Barstow Legend" and "Pride of Lovers.
"[5] Later in life, she married Carl von Saltza, whom she had met decades earlier while attending Stanford University and had previously been engaged to.
The couple lost contact after school when Mary's career in public relations became successful and Carl joined the U.S. Army Air Corps.
After Carl was fighting in World War II, Mary left New York to go to Hollywood, where she met her first husband, Richard Sale.
She continued writing creatively as a divorced mother for 20 years until May 4, 1989, when she was visiting a friend and saw the name of the man she once loved on a mailbox.